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Making Academic Social Networking Pay with Amazon Associates
If you’re a regular ProfHacker reader, there’s a good chance that you’re invested in one or more social networks for maintaining not only relationships with friends but also with your professional...
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Backup 5 GB with Amazon Cloud Drive
Were there a ProfHacker headquarters (and there should be), the motto that we’d probably inscribe on our titanium doorposts would be “Backup, backup, and again backup.” We talk a lot about Dropbox, our...
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First Impressions of the Kindle Fire
Amazon’s newly released Kindle Fire, a 7-inch full color tablet built for Amazon’s content, is the first in its popular Kindle hardware line to step out into the widening market of convergent devices....
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Amazon: Buy a Print Book, Get an E-Book, Too
As the New York Times “Bits” blog reported last month, the online retailer Amazon is launching a new program called “Kindle MatchBook, [which] lets its customers buy the electronic versions of books...
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Weekend Reading: The Rise of the Machines Edition
We at ProfHacker like books. Apparently so do many of you. The New York Times ran an article earlier this week about the “Allure of the print book.” Esquire followed with “The Revenge of the Printed...
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Save Money on Electronics Accessories with Amazon Basics
If you’ve bought electronics recently—as in, over the past few decades—you’ve likely experienced salespeople trying to upsell you on expensive cables. And you may have bought in: after all, if you’re...
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Weekend Reading: Winter Doldrums Edition
TGIF ProfHackers! This week saw the revisiting of an old favorite (at least for some of us), The Dead Poet’s Society. In the Atlantic, Kevin J. H. Dettmar argues that “Dead Poets’ Society is a...
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Weekend Reading: Back to School Countdown Edition
TGIF, ProfHackers! As the beginning of the semester looms, many of us are trying to enjoy the last moments of freedom while others are finalizing syllabi and trying to meeting writing deadlines before...
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Weekend Reading: Winter’s Come Early Edition
Happy Friday, ProfHackers! We hope that where ever you are, you are staying warm as much of the United States is grappling with unseasonable cold and snow. For your weekend reading, you might be...
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Open Thread Wednesday: the Cloud
The Cloud is where it’s at. This is probably not news to anyone who reads ProfHacker. We’ve talked about cloud storage for years: Dropbox, Spider Oak, Google Drive, and Copy. There are also other...
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Weekend Reading: Fourth of July Edition
Happy holiday weekend to our readers in the United States and happy regular weekend to everyone else (and a belated happy Canada day to our neighbors in the north)! According to an article in Vanity...
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